
Shows that feel likeThe Walking Dead (2010–2022)
If you loved The Walking Dead, the closest series we have are Spartacus (2010), High School of the Dead (2010) and The Last Ship (2014). All three share The Walking Dead's bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Oz (1997).
If The Walking Dead hit the spot, these will too

Bleak and gritty in the same breath
The difference: Easier on the dread than The Walking Dead

Ordinary people learning to kill because the alternative is dying
The difference: Anime pulp with fan service, and no moral weight

Civilization's remnant fighting to restart the world
The difference: Naval mission optimism

Survivor bands holding family together after the fall
The difference: Alien occupation, resistance-focused

Dread-soaked drama, and it commits to that
The difference: Takes it somewhere less relentless than The Walking Dead does

The same two preoccupations: gore, and survival
The difference: Trades the grit of The Walking Dead for an angle of its own

The same universe, watched from the beginning of the collapse
The difference: A family drama first, and it never finds this rhythm

A group crossing zombie country with a mission holding them together
The difference: Loose, gory and openly comic

Both lean on relentlessness more than on action & adventure
The difference: Sits closer to crime than The Walking Dead does


One thread runs through both: gore

A depopulated world and the small groups still moving through it
The difference: European, slow and grieving — no factions to fight
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